EllsKBells
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Sue, I agree with what you have said. I have exercised for the last 20 years and am now 15 months into my 'honeymoon' period, what am I supposed to do to extend it I wonder?, run a marathon every day?? I am a great advocate of exercise for all sorts of reasons (least of which is the diabetes actually) but I am not convinced it makes much difference to the honeymoon period per se. x
Having actually just read the article in question - the title is extremely misleading. 1) They only looked at 17 people - not even close to statistically significant. 2) They looked at people who were already exercising in large quantities at the time of diagnosis - not people who got diagnosed and then started exercising. 3) They defined honeymoon as insulin dose adjusted Hba1c of 9 or less, but don't say how they chose it, which makes me suspicious that they were cherry picking a little bit - a big research no no. 4) Only adult males were investigated - hardly a representative sample of the diabetic population at point of diagnosis - and they did no antibody testing.
It's a mess. They do however say in the original article that no conclusions about causality can be drawn, so of course that's what the summary article goes and does.
Rant over!